ENG - Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is a former US Congresswoman and a member of the Green Party since 2007. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives. In 2008, the Green Party nominated McKinney for President of the United States. She is the first African-American woman to have represented Georgia in the House. In the 1992 election, McKinney was elected in the newly re-created 11th District, and was re-elected in 1994. When her district was redrawn and renumbered due to the Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Miller v. Johnson, McKinney was easily elected from the new 4th District in the 1996 election, and was re-elected twice without substantive opposition.
McKinney was defeated by Denise ...

The Georgia Green Party urges Greens and the broader Atlanta community to participate in a rally organized for April 9th at the Richard B. Russell Federal Courthouse demanding an end to U.S. armed aggression against the people and nation of Libya.
In a statement issued on Monday, the 2008 Presidential nominee of the Green Party of the United States, Cynthia McKinney, who served six terms in Congress for Georgia's 11th and 4th Districts, denounced the Obama Administration's war against the people of Libya. She stated "Mr. Gaddafi to this day continues to assist Black political organizations ...

Four months after voting "present" when the House voted to support Israel in whatever it wanted to do in Gaza, Congresswoman Donna Edwards of Maryland is already feelin the heat (or the hate, depending how you see these things). Politico reports that she may be on the Cynthia McKinney track, a black progressive congresswoman targeted by the lobby for pro-Palestinian sympathies:There are already signs that the Jewish community is preparing to back a primary challenge to Edwards. Last month, Maryland Del. Herman Taylor attended the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in ...

(11ALIVE) -- Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was aboard a boat called the Dignity that CNN said was rammed by an Israeli boat.Tuesday afternoon the Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast said in a statement that McKinney's actions were "irresponsible"."Israel continues to take its humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza seriously. Border crossings into Gaza remain open, and every effort is being made to deliver aid to the Palestinian people."Nearly 100 trucks carrying relief supplies entered Gaza on the 28th & 29th of December and additional shipments are arriving. Israel ...